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Feb 082010
Feb 032010
Maybe because I’ve got this head cold, but I am oddly paranoid about random things in general as of late.
One sentence posts aren’t usually my style, but short posts are better than no posts.
Feb 032010
Wow, it has been a long time since I posted something. You’d think I could find something to rant about. Anything.
So, I’ll just post randomness.
The car chase scene from Mr. and Mrs. Smith? Awesome. Hilarity.
My Job? Not to brag, but I have quite possibly the most awesome job that has ever existed. Anywhere.
I’m making a remarkable attempt to get back into photography. Some of the photos from my last jaunt in this art are over on my deviantart page. It’s in the sidebar.
Aug 252009
So if you’re the last one on the block to hear about it, Blizzard is releasing a new expansion to World of Warcraft. Dubbed Cataclysm, Blizzard has opted to go for a end of world scenario and what is touted as huge landmass changes for Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. Not enough information for you? Here have a trailer:
Frankly, I’m a bit concerned here. Yes, the world looks cool, and those of us who have frequent ideas of the end of the world are going to love the changes to the ever so boring starting areas that we end up visiting millions of times to deliver bits of string or stringy wolf meat. But, I think that most people who have gotten used to the old game and aren’t destruction buffs are going to find the new world intimidating. I can’t see Blizzard alienating their player base though by doing something as drastic as this, so I don’t know if its going to be more than I’m making it out to be.
As a side note, most people are humored when they learn that the wife and I both play WoW. You want to know why we do it? It’s a whole lot of fun, lets us blow off some steam after work, oh and its probably the greatest value entertainment wise. Ever.
I’m telling you, its cheaper than a movie. And you get to hack things to bits with a large Axe. What’s wrong with that?
Jun 212009
Jun 212009
As many of you may or may not know, I fancy myself a decent poker player. Not decent like I could make a living, but decent to where I could become a degenerate gambler who smokes Lucky Strikes and spits on cars off of the Spring Mountain exit ramp. Anyway, everyone who plays poker has had a few bad beats happen to in their poker life. I am no exception. Here are some of my recent ones:
I’ve got A-10, flop is KQJ, Heads up, I bet like a madman, Turn and river are both 7′s. Guy turns over Q7 for a full house.
I’ve got 67, flop is 458, I flopped a straight. I bet, guy calls. Turn is a 9. I bet, guy calls. River is 8. I check, guy bets $20, I move all in over the top of him for $60 more. He instacalls with 89 for a full house.
I’ve got AK of clubs. Preflop, I raise to $7. Two callers to the flop. Flop is 3c8c7d. I bet $10 on a semi bluff. Two calls. Turn is 7c, giving me the nut flush. I now bet $20, two callers. (seriously, wtf?). River is 7h. I check because now anyone with a 3 or an 8 has a full house. Guy to the right bets $35, other guy calls, I have to call because I’m a freaking moron who can’t let go of the nut flush. They both turn over 8′s for the full boat and split the pot.
In the same instance, all poker players have some hands that are unbelievable. Here are a few of mine:
I have AsAc preflop. I bet $7, this guy who talks alot of crap goes over the top of me and raises to $15. I raise to $30. He calls. Flop is 7s8sAd, giving me the nuts. I check into him, he bets $40. I grumble for a while, putting on a show, and call the $40. the turn is the Ace of hearts, giving me quad aces. I check, he bets $50, I grumble, look at my cards, sigh, etc. And call his $50. (Right now, he’s drawing dead. There is no way he can have a better hand than mine). River is the K of spades. I go all in for $120. He grumbles and calls. I flip over the Aces. (Not only was that pot massive, I also got a high hand bonus for $400).
I have a few other hands that involve quads, full houses and the like. Never had a straight flush or a royal yet. Which kinda sucks, because the high hand bonus for those sometimes hits over $2k.
Jun 202009
Well, since I’m amazingly absent at posting lately, I’ll put a list of cool people to follow on Twitter up.
why not.
* androidlust (Shikhee from Android Lust)
* trent_reznor (Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails)
* amandapalmer (Amanda Palmer from The Dresden Dolls)
* thelindsayellis (Lindsay Ellis the Nostalgia Chick)
* drtiki (Dr. Tiki from TikiBarTV)
There, I posted! Yay.
Link dump time.
A cool little post on using Ferret and ruby to do search magics
A post about putting NetBSD on an NSLU2 (ARM)
BlackBerry Curve General Discussion forums over at Blackberry Forums
There, just a few links that I have in my Bookmarks. Figured someone could use them.
(Jejunum is here.)
The app of the day is… Max. What does Max do exactly? well it rips CDs into various audio formats on Mac (OSX). “But why don’t you use iTunes? Its superior!”, said the monkey. “Because iTunes is the devil, and it will eat your soul”, I replied. And then the monkey ripped his Birthday Massacre CD using Max, and was astonished that he could specify simple things, like output directories and formats, and also, he could rip into FLAC. And the Monkey smiled, and there was great joy across the land. For the land was prosperous in its ripped music, because never again would it lose a CD to scratching, maiming, or iTunes DB corruption.
The End.
Wait, I think I lost the focus of what I was doing. Oh. Use Max. Doitnow.
Apr 132009
Just checked out lynis from rootkit.nl. Lynis is:
Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes.
This software aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, vulnerability and malware scanning of Unix based systems. It can be run without prior installation, so inclusion on read only storage is no problem (USB stick, cd/dvd).
Lynis assists auditors in performing Basel II, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI DSS and SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance audits.
It’s pretty cool, actually. I wont include all of the scanning output here, but I will show the results of a scan from a (somewhat) default CentOS 5 install. Take a look if all of this magic security stuff interests you.
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-[ Lynis 1.2.6 Results ]-
Tests performed: 134
Warnings:
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- [20:46:34] Warning: No password set on GRUB bootloader [test:BOOT-5121] [impact:M]
- [20:46:50] Warning: Couldn't find 2 responsive nameservers [test:NETW-2705] [impact:L]
- [20:46:55] Warning: No MySQL root password set [test:DBS-1816] [impact:H]
- [20:46:55] Warning: PHP option expose_php is possibly turned on, which can reveal useful information for attackers. [test:PHP-2372] [impact:M]
- [20:47:00] Warning: No running NTP daemon or available client found [test:TIME-3104] [impact:M]
Suggestions:
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- [20:46:34] Suggestion: Run grub-md5-crypt and create a hashed password. After that, add a line below the line saying timeout=
- [20:46:49] Suggestion: Install package 'yum-utils' for better consistency checking of the package database [test:PKGS-7384]
- [20:46:50] Suggestion: Check your resolv.conf file and connectivity to your nameservers [test:NETW-2705]
- [20:46:55] Suggestion: Use mysqladmin to set a MySQL root password (mysqladmin -u root -p password MYPASSWORD) [test:DBS-1816]
- [20:46:55] Suggestion: Change the expose_php line to: expose_php = Off [test:PHP-2372]
- [20:46:55] Suggestion: Change the enable_dl line to: enable_dl = Off, to disable downloads via PHP [test:PHP-2374]
- [20:46:55] Suggestion: Change the allow_url_fopen line to: allow_url_fopen = no, to disable downloads via PHP [test:PHP-2376]
- [20:46:57] Suggestion: Enable logging to an external logging host for archiving purposes and additional protection [test:LOGG-2154]
- [20:47:00] Suggestion: Check if any NTP daemon is running or a NTP client gets executed daily, to prevent big time differences and avoid problems with services like kerberos, authentication or logging differences. [test:TIME-3104]
- [20:47:02] Suggestion: Confirm that freshclam is properly configured and keeps updating the ClamAV database [test:MALW-3286]
- [20:47:02] Suggestion: Harden the system by installing one or malware scanners to perform periodic file system scans [test:HRDN-7230]
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Files:
- Test and debug information : /var/log/lynis.log
- Report data : /var/log/lynis-report.dat
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Hardening index : [49] [######### ]
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Lynis 1.2.6
Copyright 2007-2009 - Michael Boelen, http://www.rootkit.nl/
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